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Monument Details
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Stone covered grave with angled top connecting the headstone and footstone. |
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Sandstone Engraved |
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Headstone: Sacred / to the memory of / John Allcock / who departed this life / August 30th 1855 / in the 83rd year of his age. / Also of / Ann King / widow of the above / who departed this life / December 18th, 1866. // Footstone: East face: J. A, / 1855 / A. K. A. / 1866 //
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Good, some weathering at base of headstone. Some ivy cover. |
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ChNW5 |
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John was born in Bungay, Suffolk. He was a Wine merchant who later lived and died in Andover Terrace. He was a widow when he married Ann King Childs, nee Tubb, in Pancras Old Church. Ann was born to Jemima King & John Tubb in Leckhampstead. She married James Childs, also a wine merchant, and had a daughter, Philippina Jemima Tubb Childs born in Shoreditch in 1815. She died aged 4. They also had a son in 1818, Philip, born in Shoreditch in 1818. Philip married a surgeon's daughter, Frances Rutherford. He was a Chemist & druggist in Broadway, Newbury and died in Turnham Green, Chiswick in 1890. Ann has the same maiden name, Tubb, as Jemima Withers in the adjacent grave & came from the same area. Sources: Ancestry records.
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01 November 2017 |
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